(ANSA) COLOMBO, APRIL 1 Sri Lankan security forces massed in Colombo, the Sri Lankan capital, after a night of clashes and violence with protesters attempting to storm the President’s home to protest the worst economic crisis since , committed to independence.
The country of 22 million faces shortages of essential goods and prices have risen sharply, weighed down by a huge national debt.
Colombo Police said they arrested 45 people after the riots, which left one man seriously injured.
The overnight curfew was lifted at dawn this morning, but police and army presences have been stepped up across the city, where the wreckage of a burnedout bus still blocked the road leading to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s home.
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